Cash Register--Long
after digital/computerized registers began appearing, we still had our
beloved electrical/mechanical NCR job. Bills and coin rolls were kept in a
leatherette bank bag on the shelves below. You'd enter each item in the
register and hit enter each time. You gave the patron the top part of the
check with their number ("we'll call the last two numbers when your order's
ready") and put the remaining order on top of two clips on the spinning
order wheel on top of the shelves for docked pizza and then spin the order
around to face the pizza maker and say "Order up". At closing, the manager
would use the register to print out the receipts of the day neatly
categorized for the owner or manager to put in the books, along with voids
and such. There was a phone for taking orders on the wall to the right of
the register. The others were on the substation near the twin burners and
on the back wall near the time clock.